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BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6, 19 06.

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WILLIAM RAUM, OF ETNA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 7, 1908.

Application filed June 5, 1906. Serial No. 320,245.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM RAUM, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Etna, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in buttons, and the invention has for its object to provide a novel form of button having means by which it can be easily and quickly fastened to a garment or piece of fabric.

The improvement relates to the class of devices known as bachelors buttons or those employed as a temporary holding means when the ordinary buttons are broken or displaced.

The detail construction of my improved button will be presently described, illus trated and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings forming part of this specification, like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is a erspective view of my improved button, h ig. 2 is a side elevation of the same partly in section, Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view of the button, Fig. 4 is a bottom plan of the same.

To put my invention into practice, I con struct my improved button of a metallic plate 1 centrally of which is revolubly mounted a conventional form of button 2, said button being held in engagement with the plate 1 by a rivet or pin 3. The end of the plate is bifurcated, as at 4, forming two flat ta ering pins 5, 5, which are bent to normally ie in a plane at an angle to the plate 1, the pins in abnormal osition lying in a plane a proximately aral fel with the plate 1.

he 0 osite en of the plate 1 is formed with laterally transverse cleft between the wings whereby tongues 8, 8, are formed and adapted to be bent toward the body portion 1, leaving aspace 7, between them, while the wings 9 are extending wings 9, 9, and with a also adapted to be bent into sockets 10, 10, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 to receive the free ends of the pins or prongs 5, 5.

To secure the button upon a. garment, the flat tapering pins 5, 5 are passed through the fabric of a garment to the reverse side thereof, and are then passed through the fabric again, similar to an ordinary safety pin. The ends of the pins 5, 5 are then placed in the clasps or sockets 10, the resiliency of said clas s or sockets permitting of the sides of the c asps or sockets receding until the ins rest there in, at which time the sides 0 said clasps or sockets assume their normal position and retain saidpins therein until manually disengaged therefrom. The tongues 8, 8, serve an important purpose as they form .guards to the inner ends of the sockets 10, 10, to limit the inward movement of the pins 5, 5.

My invention particularly resides in the.

construction of the plate 1 having integral clasps or sockets and flat tapering pins adapted to engage in said sockets. The plate 1 is constructed of light and durable metal and the simplicity of the same permits of the button in its entirety being manufactured at a comparatively small cost.

What I claim and desire to secure by. Letters Patent, is 1-- An article of the class described com rising a rectangular metallic body portion aving each corner at one end terminating in a depending rounded portion which merges into an elongated prong, said prongs diverging with respect to each other, and said rounded portions constituting spring-hinged connections between the prongs and the body portion, said body portion at its other end terminating in a vertically-extending depending portion of greater height than the rounded portions at the other end of thebody portion, said vertically extending portion merging into a pair of transversely-extending wlngs at a point removed from the outer end ofeach of the wings, the outer free portion of each wing being of less Width than the inner portion, said outer portion bent upwardly in a curvilinear manner and the inner free portion of said Wings havea part thereof bent.

upwardly in a curvilinear manner, said curvilinear part of the inner portion of the wing removed from each other, and a button se- 10 terminating in a transversely-extending part, cured to the body portion.

the curvilinear portions of each wing in con- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature nection with that portiori1 which formed I in the presence of two witnesses.

inte rai with semi vertica y-exten ing ortion forming sockets to receive the free en d of WILLIAM RAUM' the prongs, said transversely-extending portion of each of the wings arranged in trans verse alinement'and terminating at a point Witnesses FRED ALPENMANY, J. L. ELSESSER. 

